New Delhi, July 21 -- External affairs minister S Jaishankar will join his counterparts from Australia, Japan and the US for a Quad foreign ministers' meet on the margins of meetings under the ASEAN framework in the Philippines this week, the second such gathering of the grouping in almost two months.

The Quad foreign ministers last met in New Delhi in late May, when US secretary of state Marco Rubio travelled to India for talks with Jaishankar. However, the members of the grouping are yet to finalise dates for a Quad Leaders' Summit, which was originally to be hosted by India last year.

Jaishankar is visiting the Philippines' capital of Manila during July 22-23 to participate in meetings of foreign ministers under the ASEAN framework, ...